European Gymnastics Union to relocate the 2025 championship venue
On Friday the European Union decided to remove Israel from hosting the European Gymnastics Championship because of the situation in the Gaza Strip. teleSUR
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00:00 On Friday, the European Union decided to remove Israel from hosting the European Gymnastics Championship
00:06 because of the situation in the Gaza Strip.
00:09 The artistic gymnastics competition was to be held for the 11th time in Israel
00:14 and was scheduled for May 13th, 2025.
00:18 In this sense, the organizer opened the application process for new candidacies,
00:21 which will be available until April 23rd of this year.
00:26 In addition to the suspension, the International Gymnastics Federation also cancelled the rhythmic
00:32 gymnastics challenge World Cup, scheduled to be held next June in Jerusalem.
00:37 And we keep talking about sports because Japanese swimmer Hikako Ike
00:46 has qualified for Paris 2024 as a leukemia survivor.
00:50 The 23-year-old swimmer was diagnosed in 2018 and was hospitalized for 10 months,
00:56 returning to compete during 2020.
00:58 However, she failed to qualify for the last edition of the Olympic Games in her home country.
01:04 However, in Paris 2024, she will be part of the Japanese delegation after securing
01:09 her quota in the 100-meter butterfly style category, with a time of 57.34 seconds in her competition.
01:19 And now we go to Guatemala, where local athlete Barbara Padilla broke her own Guinness
01:24 record for the most vertical meters climbed on Guatemala's national Tahumulco
01:29 volcano at 4,200 meters above sea level.
01:33 In this way, Padilla finished 11 ascents and descents of the highest peak in Central America
01:39 in one day, less than her previous feat to mark 79,420 meters.
01:46 In only 28 days, the first world record of the Guatemalan woman, she achieved it after
01:53 climbing the Tahumulco 10 times between April 12 and May 11, 2021.
01:59 With four months to go before the Olympic Games, Apollo's fountain at the Palace of Versailles
02:11 is back in use after two years of extensive restoration work.
02:15 The Palace of Versailles is due to host the equestrian events at the Paris Olympic and
02:20 Paralympic Games this summer.
02:22 Restored main gate and Apollo test and training arenas, cross-country track and gigantic grand
02:29 stands, the Château de Versailles is pulling out all the stops to host the equestrian events
02:36 of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
02:39 With 119 days to go before the Olympics, the main entrance gate to the Château, which
02:44 was visited by 8 million tourists last year, is still partially clad and in glittering
02:50 metal, covering the very end of its restoration project, scheduled to mark the Palace's 400th
02:57 anniversary in 2023.
03:00 The Palace of Versailles is the first and only equestrian event in the world to be held
03:04 at the Palace of Versailles.
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